Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner

What we know about the missing Sub

For whatever reason this story has absolutely grabbed my attention, and so I will be compiling the information that I can confirm in a decent timeline of events, feel free to message me if y'all feel like something needs to be changed/revised

A company known as OceanGate offers dives to view the wreck of the Titanic, charging 250,000 USD per ride. This sub is not approved by any regulatory body, and is controlled with an xbox controller. The inside is a small tube one would have to sit down to fit inside.
It is not a regular sub, but a submersible, which does not have the power to lauch itself and return on it's own, but instead must be launched and retrieved by a mothership. Thus, constant communication is of the utmost importance.
4 AM, June 18th, an expedition begins. Confirmed passengers are a pilot, a "Content Expert," Businessman Hamish Harding (who posted the linked instragram post,) and two other passengers who are as yet unconfirmed.

Communications with the sub are lost 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive.
The US and Canadian coast guard begin working together to try and find the sub. The vessel has an advertised 96 hours of oxygen.
The instagram post earlier is found by CNN, although they do not yet divulge who posted it. They reach out to OceanGate for comment and get none.
An additional vessel is dispatched to assist in the search.
The US Coast Guard holds a press conference where they discuss the difficulties in locating the vessel in the remote area it dove into.
Coast Guard surmises that there is 70 to 96 hours of oxygen remaining, although this was reported abt ten hours ago, so it's more like 60 to 86 now.
The coast guard also begins a twitter thread which they are continually updating. They have completed two flights over the area but have not found anything, they will dispatch another plane in the morning.
OceanGate claims to be taking "every step possible" to recover the missing vessel.
Twitter user Kenny Sharpe realizes that he had seen the vessel being towed out to it's expedition and posts photos that he took.

LITERALLY FOUND THIS AS I WAS GETTING SOURCES, Daily Mail claims that the other two passengers are businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, but given DM's dubious journalistic integrity (to put it nicely,) I would take this claim with a grain of salt until other sources confirm it.

I will update this as more info becomes available, feel free to message me with sources if you know anything.

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A few more infos (as I've also been completely enraptured by this story)

TW for death, drowning, suffocating, claustrophobia, etc.

The sub is meant to have 1 pilot (Stockton Rush, OceanGate executive chief), 1 expert to narrate the expedition (Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a french explorer who is an expert diver) and 3 paying guests (Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his 19 years old son, Suleman Dawood). The clients are rumored to have paid 250.000$ each.
As said above, the sub relies on a mother ship and needs to communicate every 15 minutes. They lost contact after ~2 hours. They needed to be back by 8pm, by 9pm they were declared missing.
A CBS reporter (David Pogue) was on the Titan last year and has a documentary on it. He was also recently interviewed and gives his opinion on what could have happened.
International help has been deployed from (at least) the USA, Canada, France and the UK.
The biggest problem us that we have no idea where it is (duh). It's either on the surface (and they can't come out) or under the sea. So the search teams have to look in those two places. The problems are that (1) It's an ocean, the surface is huge and (2) there's so much debris on the floor that sonars wouldn't be able to tell the sub from a boulder.
The second problem is that we won't be able to help them if they aren't on the surface. They also need to be found before all breathable oxygen is depleted, which will happen around thursday morning.
Worsts options are: the sub lost pressure and there's no chance of survival. Or the sub is stuck under the sea or in the Titanic. In that case, even if we find it, we probably won't be able to rescue them because we wouldn't be able to access it.
All passengers knew that the sub was experimental. No independant organisation checked to see if it could function.
The hull is not made of standard materials, it uses carbon fiber and titanium. It usually is only titanium. The sub is thus much lighter than any other.
It is not operated by a Xbox controller but by what seems to be an off brand controller. They also have a back up.
The sub is TINY. The passengers have to sit cross leg. There's a window and a toilet (a curtain and music were installed for privacy).
No other expedition was launched this year because the conditions weren't good enough. Before the departed, they said it would probably be the only one this year. Other expeditions were planned for june 2024.

Sources

Missing Titanic sub has 40 hours of air left - US Coast Guard - BBC News

Capt Jamie Frederick says the search for the missing vessel is "very complex", and teams are working around the clock.

BBC News

Titanic tourist submersible: Rescuers scan ocean as clock ticks

The US and Canada are urgently searching for a tourist submersible not seen since Sunday.

BBC News

2023 Titan submersible incident - Wikipedia

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If anyone else would like to reblog this post with additional info than you are more than welcome and I will reblog it from you, just try to maintain a consistent thread so that we can have all the info in one place, and please make sure the sources of the people above you are valid, as I will not be rebloging additions without sources or clarification on what is and is not speculation.

I am enraptured by this story and keeping track on my own end, but I do not want a frenzy of misinformation to break out, I want this post to be a reliable source of all of the facts.

What we know about the missing Sub

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

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